You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love