Fear is the friction in all transitions.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374