You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.
Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.