Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God..

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuri….

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that ver….

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to hav….

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view of order and even punit….

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses..

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you..

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die..

Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s c….

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in ….

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others..

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough..

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, i….

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addic….

If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and ….

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hin….

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude..

Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had b….

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that….