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Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.

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If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

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Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

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Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

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Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

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When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

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God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.

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It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

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People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

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The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

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Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.

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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

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Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

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God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

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I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

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Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

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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.

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In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

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Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

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If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

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Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

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