Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

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

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.