“If we are called to attention by Gods Life and Holy Spirit, then the spiritual life is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating it...”

“Those who are in pain most of the worlds populations at any given moment do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot...”

“It is our contemporary cultures tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffer...”

“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parentsAuthentic parenting is one long sacrificial actparenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we...”

“If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating...”

“It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffe...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”