Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

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