Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?