The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

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

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.