Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.