There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.