This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.

Teach your heart that this is destiny

I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.