“A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowersIs always the first to be touched by the thorns.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.”