Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

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.

Do you want me to pretend that you are the AI?

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.