I want nothing from You but to see You.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.