Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Quotes

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The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life