"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"
"Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there."
"نصف فائدة السجود تتمثل في الطلب بحدّ ذاته ، في النية السليمة الواضحة ."
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."