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

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

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

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.