"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names, and it is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this fire, then find a new-age, sweetness-and-light, soft-speaking, perpetually smiling teacher, and learn to relabel your ego with spiritual sounding terms. But stay away from those that practice real compassion, because they will fry your ass, my friend." Ken Wilbur

"The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous." ~ Salvadore Dali

"You can't be deep without a surface." ~ Jonathan Lethem

"People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." ~ Joseph Campbell.

"The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly." ~ Carolyn Myss

"We are dappled & infused, surrounded & penetrated, made & remade by the power of love that is god. God is not superior; consequently those intimate with god are not superior, & only the thinnest veil of perception stands between a mundane moment & a mystical epiphany. There are hundreds of stories of people who devoted their lives to the rituals of a church without the veil lifting once, & hundreds of stories of 'ordinary' folk struck with communion quite unsuspectingly - neither merit nor effort seem to be salient factors in spiritual emergence. Each moment renews itself & offers the chance to be open & aflame. In my experience, openness is its own reward." ~ me, I said that, once, when asked.