In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

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

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.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The ego hates losing – even to God.