Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.