People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

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.

Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.