The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Henri Nouwen
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the... →
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the... →
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in... →
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not... →
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response... →
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the... →
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin... →
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.