In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?