My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.