The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.