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

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

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.

His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.