To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To know is to become. To become is to live fully. To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light. And to become light is to be loved. And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist. Off and on.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.