“To live sacred lives requires that we live at the edge of what we do not know.”

“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths; to know that our lives are sacred; that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem”

“We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.”

“That when we live no more, We may live ever”

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”