Life is the ability to start over again.

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

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

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.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.