Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is r….

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded..

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it..

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is b….

I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white bear….

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach..

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal o….

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions..

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance..

An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth a….

Teach us to number our days aright..

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of….

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost..

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people..

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering..

Ultimately love is everything..

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am pa….

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divo….

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize ….

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without c….

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are….