When you don’t need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE.
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
Transformed people transform people.
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it’s difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.
To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That’s a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it’s the act of faith of the Christian community.
It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
You do need some successes as a young person. They don’t inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don’t construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won’t get you anywhere.
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.