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

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.