“(The dark night of the spirit) is more a deep and ongoing process of unknowing that involves the loss of habitual experience.… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
“There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born… — 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… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
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
