Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited.
The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the...
Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are...
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
A daydream is an evasion.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attitudes,Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.
There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all they mean is that one should associate himself, "sign up" with some religious group. Stand up and b...
In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them...
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.