When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise..

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others..

Be sure that you make a difference in the world..

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to….

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world..

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brin….

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us..

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence..

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness tha….

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the beli….

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and ….

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day ….

Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to….

Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony….

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities a….

Solitude is the furnace of transformation..

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only….

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resis….

A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean crea….

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed..

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an emb….