We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.