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

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

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.

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level.

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

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.