Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.