Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth

Simon Parke wrote an interesting book called conversations with Jesus of Nazareth in which he simply speaks with Jesus.
here are some quotes from the book:
So you (Jesus) are offering a fresh start...Lot, to save his life, has to leave his hometown Sodom. he knows he must do it but still finds it very hard. It may have been a terrible city, but it was all he knew, and it's hard to leave what we know.
Jesus: "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me".
So like Lot, are we asked to leave our hometown, the town of our conditioning?

Don't go with the flow like dead dogs in a stream!

So good prayer needs trust, a readiness to forgive others, seclusion (alone with God like Jesus often went to be alone with his father), and a stillness of heart.

Previously Zacchaeus had only known what he knew, a sense of lack within himself, which he tried to calm with greed. But Jesus offered a new way of seeing the world.

We need to draw back the shutters of our lives...if your whole body is well lit (light), having no dark part, it will be full of light, as when the glowing lamp shines all around. And it starts with your eyes and how we look at things.

The Kingdom of God is 'homecoming', when like the hungry (prodigal) son, we wake up, or come to ourselves. The Kingdom of God is a state of being.
The Kingdom of God is elusive, like a scent on a breeze, coming and going. It spreads out upon the earth but people do not see it.

We find our value in our relationship to our heavenly father and not in hallucinations of self-importance fueled by popular acclaim.

(Concerning the woman from Tyre)  - You're a failed separatist, teacher (referring to Jesus), or put it more positively, a man large enough to change his mind.

If you don't want the law of Moses from your people, what do you want?
Jesus: It is kindness I want, not animal sacrifices.