Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.