I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

We are tyrannized by our options.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.