If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.

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.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all becomes one.

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.