Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.