True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

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