Occupation: Priest Birth: 1943
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody..
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world..
Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine..
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….
The ego knows itself by comparison..
Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're n….
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. Thi….
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it..
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why..
You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower..
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times..
To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . ..
The ego hates losing – even to God..
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had..
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, gr….
Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and e….
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the bell….
Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness..
In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness….
You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't const….
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through..