Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made