When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

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

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

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.

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

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.