All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

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.

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.

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.

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

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.