I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

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

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.