Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

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

So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.

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.