Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

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.

We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.

Marketing without sales is dead.

Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven

Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too.

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.