When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

I believe I was born to breed.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.