In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

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.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.