When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

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

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.