What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. - Frederick Buechner

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Religion as a word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage; where he senses meanings no less overwhelming because they can be only hinted at in myth and ritual; where he glimpses a destination that he can never know fully until he reaches it.