It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.