Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.