Life offers us this great gift of self-organization, how we can be held in the basin of shared meaning and, within that, exercise individual freedom. It is such a shame to waste it on fear and doubt. Or to seek to contain and control it.

only that "WHO-center" were obvious and accessible, and if only we could steer our course by it, knowing truly that God is in all things and all choices, seeking to draw the more life-giving outcome from all we do.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.