Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

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.