Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're not sure you'll make it to second base. You've let go of one thing and haven't yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.