Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.