Transformed people transform people.

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.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

A pittifull looke askes enough.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

Every liability is just an asset in hiding.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.