The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

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

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

The ego knows itself by comparison.