This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves.

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.