It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul..

Cancer changes your whole life..

Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only t….

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances..

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live..

All natural processes are long processes and they last..

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, b….

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If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives..

We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpe….

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road..

Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort th….

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. S….

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and lovi….

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying..

In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived ….

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

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

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love..

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words..

Fear is the friction in all transitions..