Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings