The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone.

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.