Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.