We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.