The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.