It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

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 don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

It began of nothing and in nothing ends.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.