Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.

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