The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!