13 Quotes by Gerald May

(The dark night of the spirit) is more a deep and ongoing process of unknowing that involves the loss of habitual experience. This includes, at different times and in different ways, loss of attachment to sensate gratification and to usual aspirations and motivations, loss of previously construed faith-understandings, and loss of God-images. Accompanying this, of course, are loss of self-image/importance and of preconceptions about one’s own identity.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.