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

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.