Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.