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“…Our happiness, satisfaction, and our understanding, even of God, will be no deeper than our capacity to know ourselves inwardly, to encounter the outer world from the deep comfort that comes from being at home in ones own skin, from an intimate familiarity with the ways of one’s own mind and body.”

“This is what Jungians call soul work, the development of depth of character through knowing something of the torturous labyrinthine depths and expanses of our own minds.”

“The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain.”

“Inquiry takes on a life of its own after a while. It permeates the pores of your being and breathes new vitality, vibrancy, and grace into the bland, the humdrum, the routine. Inquiry will wind up ‘doing you’ rather than you doing it.”

“Mindful inquiry can heal low self-esteem, for the simple reason that a low self-estimation is really a wrong calculation, a misperception of reality.”

“Inquiry is not just a way to solve problems. It is a way to make sure you are staying in touch with the basic mystery of life itself and of our presence here.”

“Questioning, questioning, continually questioning.”