Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.