If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.