Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.

All beliefs are equally valid.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Food, like your money, should be working for you!

and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.

A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.