There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

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

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

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