What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.