Occupation: Author Birth: 1939
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin..
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values ….
Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?.
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass me….
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination..
I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them..
I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act..
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful si….
The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world.….
By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish a….
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible..
Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are no….
We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house….
When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the….
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision an….
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you are doing; and is it coming from insi….
Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift..
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….
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our studen….
The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are….
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted rol….