Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.