When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

Diversity is good. We need each other's ideas.

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

I've never seen so much suicide...The Bible is full of hope.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.