People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

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

All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.