The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.