'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

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

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.