“Forgiveness changes the way we remember.”

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.

You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”

Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.