“In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives, we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation – the cutting off from things as they really are.” Colin Gunton

“I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.” Criss Jami

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”  C. S. Lewis

“Sometimes the problem is not so much what one is preaching, but rather how he is preaching it.” Criss Jami

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life.  It is no less than a denial of the soul.”  Oscar Wilde

“The direct route is to let reality be the guide to your needs — “What I need is what I have.” This is not something to believe; it’s the way things are right now, whether you believe it or not.”  Byron Katie

“You do not need to believe in Reality for it to be true, but you do need to believe in illusions to make them seem ’true’.” Joel Wright

“Your mind is always wrong no matter what it thinks because thinking is not of God. The closest your mind is capable of coming to truth is in realizing that there must be a better way.”  Joel Wright

“In an age where there is much talk about ‘being yourself’ I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on ‘being yourself’ he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.”   Thomas Merton

“What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What in God might appear to us as ‘play’ is perhaps what He Himself takes most seriously.”  Thomas Merton