Occupation: Author Birth: 1939
It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right..
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self….
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion..
I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject ….
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved ….
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together..
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-si….
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being ….
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….
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy..
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life..
God ain't finished with any of us yet..
People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence betwee….
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were ….
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands ….
Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings ….
Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the jour….
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses..
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply ….
Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are p….
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be ….