We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.