You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.