The journey never happens alone.

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.