Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: June 12, 1940 Death: April 12, 2005
In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is..
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play..
Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way..
To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls..
True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen..
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses ….
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear..
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of….
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for ….
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery..
Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is i….
Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy..
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace..
Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them..
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon th….
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a ste….
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In rea….
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attemp….