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"There is no external promised land. It's an internal place. No matter what happens in the outside world, the journey is to hold your center. Because the real journey is to prevent yourself from plugging in to illusions in the outside world that take your spirit with them."

"we must come to understand that language is a precious and sacred vessel. Its power to draw us together in community—especially through sharing the language of prayer—is great. So too is its power of destruction."

"The question should be better put in our context: 'Why is reality the way it is? Why does human consciousness experience itself as separate, but bear within it intimations of a greater oneness?'"

"Y-H-W-H, the true name of the One, has nothing to do with mastery or domination. It is a name that bespeaks the utter oneness, rather than the hierarchical ordering, of existence."

"Our prayer is a cry and a song to life itself, called forth from our own innermost self, addressed to the wonder and mystery of life that we have dared to call again by this ancient and holy name "

"Writing is always an act of faith."

"I wish someone had told me when I was young that it was not happiness I could count on, but change."

"I will say it so: My mother's voice is a lullaby in my cells. When I am still, my body feels her breathing."

"The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one—which means you have permission to stop engaging in it."

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."

"We never sit anything out.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the the beautiful stuff out."

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."