Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

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

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

If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.