The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.