Drinking our cup is not simply adapting ourselves to a bad situation and trying to use it as well as we can. Drinking our cup is a hopeful, courageous, and self-confident way of living. It is standing...
When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, 'Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.' But soon we disco...
We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do i...
To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqu...
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.
The leap of faith always means loving without expecting to be loved in return, giving without wanting to receive, inviting without hoping to be invited, holding without asking to be held. And every ti...
Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
Prayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart; that is, at that point of our being where there are no divisions or distinctions and where we are totally one. There God's Spirit...
Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced.
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
Mysticism and revolution are two aspects of the same attempt to bring about radical change. Mystics cannot prevent themselves from becoming social critics, since in self-reflection they will discover...
Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy.
It is quite understandable that you are afraid of this place. You have so little knowledge of it. You have caught glimpses of it, you have even been there at times, but for most of your life you have...
Friendship and love cannot develop in the form of an anxious clinging to each other.
Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These...
Being in the world without being of the world. These words summarize well the way Jesus speaks of the spiritual life. It is a life in which we are totally transformed by the Spirit of love. Yet it is...
Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.