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Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.


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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.



There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

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.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.



It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.





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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially



In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.



When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.



With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.



I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.



... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.



Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.



So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.



It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.




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