The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.