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

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

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.

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

...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.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self.