Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

The most important things in your home are people.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.