What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

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.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?