You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

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

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.