We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.