Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so yo….

Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry….

Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, witho….

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self..

The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by your….

Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were befo….

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames t….

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second..

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy..

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality..

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up..

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authe….

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it..

Transformed people transform people..

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them..

When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives..

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude….

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. Th….

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most We….

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul ther….