When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.