The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.

Good teaching comes from good people.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.