Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

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.

Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Love does not conquer all.

You do something wrong, you learn from it, you move on.

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.