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

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. 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. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.

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

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.