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

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

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