Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

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

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

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

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.