Quotes from Gerald May

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.