Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

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.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

The journey never happens alone.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

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

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.