If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

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

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.