A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.