The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.