Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.

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

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

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.

A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.