I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the e….

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world..

Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love..

Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right….

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live t….

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to….

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a d….

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the fou….

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….

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation..

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter..

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening..

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified wit….

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heave….

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain..

God comes to us disguised as our life..

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us..

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that ….

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even hap….

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place..

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 physica….