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 have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

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.

I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.