When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.
I've been playing the drums since age nine.
The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.
I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor. ' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.