Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

My story has been the story of my generation.

The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.