Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that’s true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.
We don’t change as we get older – we just get to be more of what we’ve always been.
Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not “coming.” Heaven is here.
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are – and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside...
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.
The message we have internalized is clear – we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!
Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it.
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don’t get it.
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.