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.

People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.