I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

Good teaching comes from good people.