if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

Psychologists call this phenomenon the contrast effect. Simply put, how you see anything depends on your reference point. One way or the other, your focus will determine your reality.

You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being" than "doing.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in.

Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

According to the law of requisite variety, the survival of any system depends on its capacity to cultivate variety in its internal structures. Disequilibrium is life ... When I'm in a spiritual slump, nine times out of ten, something sacred has become routine ... one of the ways I snap out of a spiritual slump is by disturbing by routine and experimenting with spiritual disciplines.