“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”

“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”

“This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.”

“Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.”

“Wenn die Menschen um ihre Freiheit kämpfen, erhalten sie durch ihren Sieg selten neue Herren.”

“The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.”

“... to have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.”