Book Excerpts

Longing is the sweet and poignant rhapsody of the soul. Longing is existential—it comes into being the moment a child is birthed, perhaps even in utero, and is part of the human condition.

“Imagination,” Einstein said, “is more important than knowledge.”

I could not let any collection of essays on spirituality rest without mention of the holiness of color ...

Compassion is perhaps the greatest virtue. When one lives from compassion, on lives with passion—with absolute overarching love for all humanity and for the cosmos of which we are an integral part.