Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.