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

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.