It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.

Sometimes when a friendship is in trouble, it is not to be healed by endless analysis or counseling. You need to change the rhythm of seeing each other and come in contact again with the ancient...

A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it...

If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is that the clay of your body is retrieving its own sense of sisterhood with the...

Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more...

I don't believe that death comes at the end of a life. I believe your death was there at your birth with you. It was the unknown presence. Every step of the road of your life that you take, your death...

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.

One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.

There is a desperate hunger for belonging. People feel isolated and cut off. Perhaps this is why a whole nation can assemble around the images of celebrities. They have no acquaintance with these...

Indeed, a book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly...

Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.

Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into...

The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.

...There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there'sstill a sureness in you, where there's a seamlessness in you, and wherethere is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I...

The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often "make strange" with each other.

Fashioned from the earth, we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing.