Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.