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

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

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

Belief traps or frees us.

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

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.