The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

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?

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

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

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.