If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates read more

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!

Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The most important things in life aren't things.

The most important things in life aren't things.

When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train read more

When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like