“(The dark night of the spirit) is more a deep and ongoing process of unknowing that involves the loss of habitual experience. This includes, at different times and in different ways, loss of attachment to sensate gratification and to usual… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our… — Gerald May Copy Share
Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
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… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
