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

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

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

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

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.