In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

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

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.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need, " she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.