Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

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

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.