“The painful sea of birth-and-death knows no bounds.We have long been submerged.Only the ship of Amida’s Vowwill take us aboard and carry us across without fail.(Hymns on the Masters)”

“Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”

“When all shall fail us, then God will take care of us, and then all will not fail us since we shall have God.”

“Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus;When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no hymns from us”

“Let us take care of the children...for they have a long way to go.Let us take care of the elders...for they have come a long way.Let us take care of the in-betweens...for they are doing the work.”

“Into this life of cruel wonder sent,Without a word to tell us what it meant,Sent back again without a reason why -Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment.”