Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.