All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.