Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.