Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

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.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.