It Is Easier To Find Guides, Someone

That's The Whole Spiritual Life. It's Learning How To Die. And As You Learn How To Die, You Start Losing All Your Illusions, And You Start Being Capable Now Of True Intimacy And Love.

Prayer Gets Us In On What God Is Doing.

Classically, There Are Three Ways In Which Humans Try To Find Transcendence--religious Meaning--apart From God As Revealed Through The Cross Of Jesus: Through The Ecstasy Of Alcohol And Drugs, Through The Ecstasy Of Recreational Sex, Through The Ecstasy Of Crowds. Church Leaders Frequently Warn Against The Drugs And The Sex, But At Least, In America, Almost Never Against The Crowds.

You Don't Make Your Words True By Embellishing Them With Religious Lace. In Making Your Speech Sound More Religious, It Becomes Less True.

I Will Not Try To Run My Own Life Or The Lives Of Others; That Is God's Business.