The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.