Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in religion that assures you God hates you for all of that - and then look me in the eye and tell me you can feel ok about yourself. I dare you. I just dare you.

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

Religion is just coded spirituality.

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?