It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.