“The door to my old life slammed shut, and the Key to a new door was offered.”

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“For most of us, our own deepest identity is still well hidden from us. Religion’s primary and irreplaceable job is to bring this foundational truth of our shared identity in God to full and grateful consciousness; the true meaning of holiness. The irony is that this holiness is actually our first nature. Yet, we made it so impossible that it didn’t even become our second nature that we could easily wear it with dignity. This core identity, a deep connection to the God within, is something we can only fall into and receive—and nothing that we can achieve, which utterly humiliates the ego, the willful, and all overachievers.”

“Moments of spontaneous meditative experience can be understood as flash points of awareness as we realize a oneness with God. We intuitively begin to recognize we are Not God; yet we are a part of God’s marvelous creation. In moments of meditative awakening, we realize that God is given to us, wholly and completely. We as persons are who God eternally knows us to be; created with a soul destined for eternal oneness with God.”

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”