Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.