It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.

Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.