The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

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 surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.