One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues
Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.
If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.
Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.