Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

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

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

Stay determined to achieve your dreams.

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.