When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE

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.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.