I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Be open. And then the truth follows.