God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.