It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. I find it means you have to dumb down your message to something less radical than the gospel. It can't be the real gospel. It has to be "churchiness" that pleases everyone, so they come back next Sunday and keep putting money in the collection plate. I don't mean that in a cynical way. I just think it's what happens.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.