The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated wi….

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to ….

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people..

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time….

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God..

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey..

The world is evil only when you become its slave..

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opi….

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All i….

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?.

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity an….

Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was fo….

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bi….

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me..

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentm….

Forgiveness indeed heals memories.

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel….

In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alien….

Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get….

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable..

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and ….