Occupation: Priest Birth: 1943
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wo….
There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough..
If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them..
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….
Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God..
If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. ….
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind o….
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition o….
When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already beca….
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own..
Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing..
Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God..
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing….
Every viewpoint is a view from a point..
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all th….
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. The….
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..
Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!.
After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consc….
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….
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better..