The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

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.

If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

between hero and devil, with side you choice? i like to be a devil... king because this world are too peaceful, that will lead to no hero when there no devil to defeat

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

Stay calm and aggressive.

If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.