Quotes about Understanding

Human sympathy is the best and easiest way to open the heart space and to make us live inside our own bodies. God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there. Our central message again bears repeating: God loves things by becoming them. We love God by continuing the same pattern.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.

I believe, necessary for both joy and truth in this world.

in fact, that's largely what it means to be loving. You can hold for them what they cannot yet hold. You can transform for them what they cannot yet transform. You do that by not returning their negativity and fear in kind, as most people will do.

When we learn to love anyone or anything, It is because they have somehow, if just for a moment, Mirrored us truthfully yet compassionately to ourselves.

The advantage of those on the further journey is that they can still remember and respect the first language and task. They have transcended but also included all that went before. In fact, if you cannot include and integrate the wisdom of the first half of life, I doubt if you have moved to the second. Never throw out the baby with the bathwater. People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. They are not mere iconoclasts or rebels.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand!

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

Science is now giving us a very helpful language for what religion rightly intuited and imaged, albeit in mythological language. Remember, myth does not mean "not true," which is the common misunderstanding; it actually refers to things that are always true!

Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.