Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

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.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.