God comes to you disguised as your life.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.