The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.