The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

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

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.