A Revelation of Awakening, Not Accomplishing
If you asked me whether what I have done in my life defines my life, I would answer, “No.” That’s not to diminish my sins…
Category: Quotes
Let’s Get Real!
My highest hope is for all of us to stop trying to fool others by appearing to have our act together. As people living in…
Our Own Essential Solitude
This book has been about community . . . But when all is said and done, each of us, and in the deepest part of…
Coincidence?
I think of a person I haven’t seen or thought of for years, and ten minutes later I see her crossing the street. I turn…
God Understands the Weakness of Our Love
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed,…
Growth in Community
It is fairly natural and perhaps even necessary that a new community is taken up with its own originality and tends to idealize itself. If…
Community With Terrorists?
The community knows that the fundamental questions of life can only be looked at in a spirit of peace and inner freedom. Nobody can force…
Yes and No . . . to Love
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships…
Living Life in a Straight Line
Life itself – and Scripture too – is always three steps forward and two steps backward. It gets the point and then loses it or…
True Experience of God
…mysticism in both the East and West understands revelation to mean experience. The Divine reveals itself to humans directly and much more intensely in the…