The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Metaphysics is a science.