Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God’s fierce love for us.

God sits enthroned, ready to listen, to help.

And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo

To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization.

And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.