A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
Dare I? Of course I don’t. But I’m going to anyhow because I have no choice.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.
If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn’t need defending.
We do not love each other without changing each other.
There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.
When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.