It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

Behold this day, for it is yours to make.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

Patriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Don’t insist on understanding new things, but try with your whole self, with patience, effort and method, to comprehend obvious truths.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Love draws you out of your cocoon of self absorption to attune to others. Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion.

Silence is so accurate.

Let me tell you a few things about regret… There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the…

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life.

There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port, may blow another off shore.

God, to me, it seems, / is a verb / not a noun, / proper or improper.

Joy is the best makeup.

Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at other, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in…

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall…

Be like a mirror, or mountain lake, that reflects whatever passes before it.

One of the first principles to honor in your relationship with yourself is to respect and trust your own inner voice. This form of trust is the way of the heart, the epitome of well being.

We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens.

Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.

At some point each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. With even a glimmer of that possibility, joy rushes in.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a room full…

I have learned this art: When I have nothing more to say, I stop talking.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.