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

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.