What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you se….

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate..

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history..

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it..

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems..

People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not ….

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path..

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry….

Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. The….

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to t….

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego..

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us..

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative..

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and cont….

God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your de….

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it..

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them..

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and ….

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy..

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less..

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you alr….