Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

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.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.