Quotes from Darrell Calkins

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.

I think that as a species we've played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring.

The purest definition of "religious" is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That's a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility.

There's surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.