I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

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 felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.