Non-violence is the greatest and the most active force in the world.... One person who can express Ahimsa in life exercises a force superior to all the forces of brutality.
Adopting Martha, just after my 34th birthday, was a way to acknowledge to myself and to the world that I was living my life, not in anticipation of something else happening in the future, but because it was my one and only life.
The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words.
The paradox of human connection:
We avoid speaking difficult truths to protect relationships.
But that's what prevents those relationships from becoming truly meaningful.
You can’t be accepted for who you are if you’re not showing up as who you are.