Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

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.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.