The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others