You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

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.

God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.