To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

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

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.