The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

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

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.