I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.

“This is not a time to live without a practice. It is a time when all of us will need the most faithful, self-generated enthusiasm (enthusiasm: to be filled with god) in order to survive in human fashion. Whether we reach this inner state of recognized divinity through prayer, meditation, dancing, swimming, walking, feeding the hungry or enriching the impoverished is immaterial. We will be doubly bereft without some form of practice that connects us, in a caring way, to what begins to feel like a dissolving world. In addition to contemplating the Hopi message: know your garden and where is your water, we must also ask: What is my practice? What is steering this boat that is my fragile human life?”

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”