[...]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.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.