Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

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.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

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

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.

It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.