You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

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.