Therefore every real revolutionary is challenged to be a mystic at heart, and he who walks the mystical way is called to unmask the illusory quality of human society.
The younger son’s return takes place in the very moment that he reclaims his sonship, even though he has lost all the dignity that belongs to it. In fact, it was the loss of everything that brought hi...
The inward man is faced with a new and often dramatic task: He must come to terms with the inner tremendum. Since the God 'out there' or 'up there' is more or less dissolved in the many secular struct...
The immense difference that exists between hope and wishfulness is revealed in the remarks of a student who wrote: I see hope as an attitude where everything stays open before me. Not that I don't thi...
The great movement of the spiritual life is from a deaf, nonhearing life to a life of listening.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. Our lives are filled with examples which tell us that leadership asks for unders...
The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiri...
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
The Bible is primarily a book not of information but of formation, not merely a book to be analyzed, scrutinized, and discussed but a sacred book to nurture us, to unify our hearts and minds, and to s...
Temptations and struggles will remain to the end of our lives, but with a pure heart we will be restful even in the midst of a restless existence.
Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.
Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled lif...
Our primary task in solitude, therefore, is not to pay undue attention to the many faces which assail us, but to keep the eyes of our mind and heart on him who is our divine savior.
Our preoccupations prevent our having new experiences and keep us hanging on to the familiar ways.
Only when we recognize the rich network of connections between the Eucharist and our life in the world can the Eucharist be worldly and our life Eucharistic.
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.
O Lord, I will not bind you with my own limited and limiting ideas and feelings. You can do so many things with me, things that might seem totally impossible to me. I want at least to remain open to t...
Loneliness is one of the most universal human experiences, but our contemporary Western society has heightened the awareness of our loneliness to an unusual degree. During a recent visit to New York C...