The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results..

Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We mus….

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends..

Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to b….

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from a….

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit..

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others..

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you s….

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem..

It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude….

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get dow….

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to lov….

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place ….

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in hi….

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now..

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the….

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. On….

I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even….

In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my pres….

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant..