The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.