Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

Those who trespass in others' souls will always get burned in the end.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

I like fixing things.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.