Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.