Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed....This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.