It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

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.

Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats. Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.

Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.