The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.