We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them..

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. I….

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished..

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind..

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither….

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are..

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns..

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening..

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we ….

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to ….

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better..

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least a….

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light..

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the bal….

A new year can begin only because the old year ends..

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witch….

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what….

I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the t….

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into….

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the lov….

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and….