True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.