I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.