God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all becomes one.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.