Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

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.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

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

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.