If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.