“If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.”

“Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action...”

“As the theologian Alan Jones has said:One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases...”

“The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.”

“Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.”

“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the mu...”

“Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. Its that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where sus...”

“I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what ...”

“Delayed gratification is what makes a man.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”