Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.

Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.