The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

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.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.

The spark of divinity is sacred spirit with divine soul.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.