Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Now--here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God--that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help...
We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding...
You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender.
You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.
Should you ever find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, smallness, or insecurities, remember: Things could be worse. You could be them.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
The more you grow into love, into the message of Jesus--to say it in such traditional, defenseless terms--the more vulnerable you make yourself. You simply become more open to attack when you have become conspicuous or when "that of God" lights up in you. When you...