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

We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that.

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.