Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon yo….

Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partn….

But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, ….

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting voca….

What do you do for ecstasy?.

Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many r….

If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll tea….

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-….

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage..

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fict….

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war..

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliat….

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than nega….

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?.