God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.