If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

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

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.