Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

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.

Godliness is not just a doctrine, a belief or a principle, it has a personality.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

You are safe master nothing can harm you now

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.