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.

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.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

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

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.