...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.