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.

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

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.