Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .