Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.