[...]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.

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.

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.

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.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.