“His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.”

“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”

“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”

“A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore co...”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”

“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependences...”

“As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, special...”

“Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.”

“Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the ga...”

“Where in the world would a star be without the love of the sky?”

“Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.”

“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”

“I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...”

“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”