All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view of order and even punitiveness. And for some reason, there's a feeling that the male psyche is going to give that to them. And if that's your view of religion, which it is for many people, if they've never come to the mystical level, religion is for social order and to maintain social order.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

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.