Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."