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.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

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

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

The ego knows itself by comparison.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).