We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.

I have just always found it extremely hard to be here, on this side of eternity, because of, well, other people; and death.

People are little truth-seeking missiles, but not many of us were encouraged to challenge our convictions and identities, except by writers and certain teachers, so we extracted meaning by selecting certain variables that agreed with our parents’ worldview.

man. It felt like there was domestic violence going on inside her, between the bully and the mother.

When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right. My Jesuit friend Tom used to say that he never noticed what he was feeling; only that he was right.

Light not only warms, of course, but illuminates both things we want to see and don’t want to see.

Forty percent! What if I could reduce my viral load by forty percent?

The love of our dogs and cats is the closest most of us will come to knowing the direct love of God on this side of eternity.

The Dalai Lama said that “religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”