In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.