The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

The journey never happens alone.

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.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.