Joel Hansen

“There is,” wrote William Penn, “something nearer to us than Scriptures, to wit, the Word in the heart from which all Scriptures come.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“As Neil Evernden has pointed out, our freedom lies not primordially in our actions within a story, but rather in the choosing of our story.”
― Martin Lee Mueller, Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

“When I open my Bible, I’m invited into a jetstream of love.”
― Beth Swiger, Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit

“If work were to become interesting without the other spheres of life becoming human, no real change would occur. In fact, it could not become interesting. It is the very evil of present-day culture that it separates and compartmentalizes the various spheres of living. The way to sanity lies in overcoming this split and in arriving at a new unification and integration within society and within the individual human being.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society