The journey never happens alone.

The ego knows itself by comparison.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

Transformed people transform people.

God comes to us disguised as our life.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

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

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

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