Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

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

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

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.