There are no accidents.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

We're all just walking each other home.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.