The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

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.

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.

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

You were built for this moment.

When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.