If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

If you can say it, it begins to exist.

Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.