Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon yo…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fict…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partn…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliat…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting voca…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

What do you do for ecstasy?

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many r…

- Mary Rose O'Reilley