Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

The journey never happens alone.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

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.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.