Poetry for People 
Who Don't Read Poetry. Spirituality for Me
and Maybe You.

Western intellectual culture is not really interested in peace, happiness, or fulfillment.

I love that what to me is a small unappealing object is a huge glorious feast for the birds around me.

Or "How to Solve All the World's Problems"

I'm making a little book called Just So Many Words: A Dictionary of Life-Giving Definitions. The premise is that no definition can...

There isn’t a single boundary that we couldn’t change or that doesn’t disappear on closer examination.

We need to know happiness intimately before we are qualified to help others find it.

If there's such thing as a scientifically valid sampling of significant things that happened in the world today, "the news" is not it.

The only cure for ambition is an idea so beautiful and ridiculous that most people dismiss it outright.

Alone is the opposite of lonely.

We all look around at the world to try to find slots where we can fit ourselves

I have spent much of my adult life with a kind of default idea playing like a background tape loop: that I have come up short...

A friend’s college-age son was depressed and my friend, knowing what I have gone through, asked if I could offer any help. The request...

Some people love babies and some don’t. But babies don’t care. Adults have to teach them that.

Jesus can’t be kept inside our convenient containers... He invites us to experience something more than that.

I keep a list of things to do. Little and big stuff I want to get done. I’ve also kept an attitude towards that list. It is a sense that...

What we most want is...

To fulfill your desire...

Celebrate...

The most pervasive lies...

Particulars do their job when...