Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.