The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
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The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt
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I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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The Christ is God-for-us! But God is not only for us, [God] is for everything created.
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