Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.