The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

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

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

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'.

Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.

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

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.