It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there th….

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within..

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go ….

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed..

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will….

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you..

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its lo….

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our ….

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my st….

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others..

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at ….

If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in ….

Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projec….

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I….

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mind….

Good teaching comes from good people..

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'.

There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the c….

In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works ….

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known,….