Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.