When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.