Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction..

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the fal….

So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a….

People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real ….

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place..

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged..

As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, ….

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive..

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of….

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dar….

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called..

But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that sa….

Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy aro….

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me..

When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love,….

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spir….

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness..

Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to ….

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we w….

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place..