hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. - Anne Lamott

More than any other sentence I have ever come across, I love Ram Dass’s line that when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.