The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.