Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

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.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.