Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

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

A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world.

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