Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality