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.
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
Coming home meant, for me, walking step by step toward the One who awaits me with open arms and wants to hold me in an eternal embrace. I
You have to acknowledge where you are and affirm that place. You have to be willing to live your loneliness, your incompleteness, your lack of total incarnation fearlessly, and trust that God will giv...
Worrying causes us to be all over the place, but seldom at home.
Thus, our brokenness can become a gateway to new life.
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...
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy.
I slowly became aware, but only in my head, of something about the first love and the second love. Let me explain. I became more and more intellectually clear that the first love comes from the ultima...
I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that each of us is limited in our capacity to be for another what is needed...
Healthy development means a gradual movement out of the magical world. Even when the development takes place in other areas, our religion easily remains on this immature level. In that case, God remai...
Every time you close another door—be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection—you...
Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.
Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.
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...
A real friend is someone who doesn’t walk off when there are no solutions or answers, but sticks by you and remains faithful to you. It often turns out that the one who gives us the most comfort is no...
Your pain is deep, and it won’t just go away. It is also uniquely yours, because it is linked to some of your earliest life experiences.Your call is to bring that pain home. As long as your wounded pa...
Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.
We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, beca...