Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.