When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.