We must take the no of the way that closes and find the guidance it has to offer-and take the yes of the way that opens and respond with the yes of our lives.

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing.

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

They decide no longer to act on the outside in a way that contradicts some truth about themselves that they hold deeply on the inside.

I was disappointed in myself for not being tough enough to take the flak, disappointed and ashamed. But as pilgrims must discover if they are to complete their quest, we are led to truth by our weaknesses as well as our strengths.

Darkness is not the whole of the story-every pilgrimage has passages of loveliness and joy-but it is the part of the story most often left untold.

"Faking it" in the service of high values is no virtue and has nothing to do with vocation. It is an ignorant, sometimes arrogant, attempt to override one's nature, and it will always fail.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

from our first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves,