Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

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?

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

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

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".