meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

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.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

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