An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
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.
Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.
When we pray, we don’t change the world, we change ourselves.
We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
Everybody is a story.
People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Silence is a place of great power and healing.
Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.