To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as "two or three gathered in my name" is not still the best way.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

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

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

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