We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We have lost the sense of ritual, presence and intimacy of the meal; we no longer sit down to meals in the old way.

Regularly throughout conversation in Gaelic, there is explicit recognition that the divine is present in others.

SPIRITUALITY IS THE ART OF TRANSFIGURATION. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any predetermined shape. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined programme or plan for our lives.

The spiritual life is imagined as a journey with a sequence of stages. Each stage has its own methodology, negativity and possibilities.

When your soul awakens, your destiny becomes urgent with creativity.

As soon as I let go of the desire to sleep, sleep came naturally.

If you plant two trees side by side, they will smother each other. That which grows needs space. Kahlil Gibran says: ‘But let there be spaces in your togetherness, let the winds of the heavens dance between you.’