The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better..

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing..

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for ….

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world bu….

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing..

As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as ….

Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marria….

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like..

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well..

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing t….

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts..

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important..

There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of dee….

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wo….

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted..

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion i….

After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consc….

It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and ….

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great ….

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we m….