When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.