How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.