The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.