But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.