Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.