There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

How different my life will be if I let go, allowing the universe to do its dance without my constant interference. Today I release the thought that I know what is best—for myself, for the world, or for anyone in it. I relax into the patterns of a divinely orchestrated universe, asking only to be guided where I can best fit in and be used in service to love's will.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well—as both a day and an attitude—we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God's sovereignty, we won't dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we'll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Prayer is listening.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.