Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.