Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

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.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.