Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.