Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is th...
Younger son said to his father, Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me. So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the younger son got together everyt...
Why is it, that many parties and friendly get-togethers leave us so empty and sad?
Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.
When we live with a solitude of heart, we can listen with attention to the words and the worlds of others, but when we are driven by loneliness, we tend to select just those remarks and events that br...
When we are spiritually deaf, we are not aware that anything important is happening in our lives. We keep running away from the present moment, and we try to create experiences that make our lives wor...
We have to live our life, not someone else's. We have to hold our own cup. We have to dare to say: This is my life, the life that is given to me, and it is this life that I have to live, as well as I...
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.
Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.
To be lifted up into the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit does not mean, however, to be taken out of the world. On the contrary, those who have entered into the spiritual life a...
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...
They discover that there are people who heal each other’s wounds, forgive each other’s offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and li...
There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.
There is something beautiful about shyness, even though in our culture shyness is not considered a virtue. On the contrary, we are encouraged to be direct, look people straight in the eyes, tell them...
There are days, weeks and maybe months and years during which we are so overwhelmed by our sense of loneliness that we can hardly believe that the solitude of heart is within our horizon. But when we...
The word Eucharist means literally act of thanksgiving. To celebrate the Eucharist and to live a Eucharistic life has everything to do with gratitude. Living Eucharistically is living life as a gift,...
The parable that Rembrandt painted might well be called The Parable of the Lost Sons. Not only did the younger son, who left home to look for freedom and happiness in a distant country, get lost, but...
The main question is Do you own your pain? As long as you do not own your pain—that is, integrate your pain into your way of being in the world—the danger exists that you will use the other to seek he...