The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.