We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.