One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.

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

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.

Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.