Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

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

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

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