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.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.