"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."
"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
"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."
"You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."