I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

With the Holy Spirit, you have it made! For you, life is already successful.

Art must not serve might.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.