Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.