We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

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

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.