A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.