“That GREAT FAMILY REUNION in HEAVEN Awaits the Child of GOD!”

“Have faith that the results that you are looking for will come from the fruition of your research.”

“I know the rules. I’ve been living here longer than you have.”He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. “Hardly.””Born and raised. You’re a transplant.” I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. “Country bumpkin!” I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing.”City slicker,” he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

“There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream. ”

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”

“It is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief, because your very belief projects what you think ought to be God, what you think ought to be true.”

“I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”

“I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”

“My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn’t yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up. And Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of just showing up. Showing up, to me, means being present to what is real, what is actually happening. Mary Magdalene didn’t necessarily know what to say or what to do or even what to think when she encountered the risen Jesus. But none of that was nearly as important as the fact that she was present and attentive to him.”

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”

“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”

“If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.”

“You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.”

“You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.”