Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.