The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
Barbara Brown TaylorI've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
Barbara Brown TaylorBeliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
Barbara Brown TaylorThe real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
Barbara Brown Taylor