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

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?