Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.