If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

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.

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?

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.