Birth: 1923
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice..
The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God..
Centering prayer is a training in letting go..
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior ex….
If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else..
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation..
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us..
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the en….
Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously..
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what need….
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bri….
To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ...….
The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacre….
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedo….
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from ….
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine..
You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to pl….
The root of prayer is interior silence..
Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn..
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all arou….
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help..