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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
when we cry out Help, or whisper it into our chests, we enter the paradox of not going limp and not feeling so hopeless that we can barely walk, and we release ourselves from the absolute craziness of trying to be our own—or other people’s—higher powers.
grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and in the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.
The best works of art are like semaphores of our experience, signaling what we didn’t know was true but do now.
Art makes it hard to ignore truth, that Life explodes and blooms, consumes, rots and radiates and slithers; that eternity really is in a blade of grass.
If you want to know only what you already know, you’re dying.
Even when we don’t cooperate, blessings return to our lives, even in the aftermath of tragedy.
