To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.