The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to ….

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God t….

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restor….

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself..

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then pr….

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you ….

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forg….

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, f….

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters..

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matt….

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, sh….

We become what we pay attention to..

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you..

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life..

What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our will….

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts..

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through fo….

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportuni….

God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us ….

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home..