Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that reaction in areas of our life where it's not successful. Areas that concern existential issues or qualities of life - like meaning or purpose or love. These things actually come to us more as we let go of struggling to achieve them.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.