You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

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.

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

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