God comes to you disguised as your life.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.