Quotes from D. Patrick Miller

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

T]he secret is that the ego is the devil — not the shadow... there is evil beyond the ego — an archetypal evil — but for most people, it's the ego that's really the problem.

If you go back to that psychological document we call the New Testament, you'll find that it says the devil is 'the father of lies. Now the shadow never lies; it's the ego that lies about its real motives. That's why successful psychotherapy, and any genuine religious conversion, requires absolute honesty about oneself.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.