Good teaching comes from good people.

Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

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

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

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

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.