Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.