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

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.