Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.