“have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary”

“let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment, and the next, and the next, and the next...”

“the voice taunted, and threatened: "you are afraid, unhappy, dissatisfied, what if."but I knew, this was not His language for motivating my heart,so I waited quietly to hear my Father's native tong...”

“I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...”

“a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it...”

“This morning I awoke drowning in sadness. Sleepily, I probed my heart looking for a cause.Then, rising from the dream, I took possession of my feelings and gave them back to God - the only Source o...”

“Throughout our youth, whenever we had a dispute, Li Wei and I would apologize to each other by exchanging gifts. Mine would be in the form of drawings, crudely done with whatever natural supplies I...”

“What is it?A prayer.For a child?She nodded.For me?Another nod.On a tree?Trees spend all day looking up at God.”

“Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs, each an amulet. See the tint; it's very old; like clots of sunshine, aren't the...”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry...”

“I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into s...”

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”