This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.