“Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other—there is nothing so tragical as two human beings.”

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking action despite the fear.

I have a lot of shame about this. Popping another couple painkillers, I think, I should be taking white willow, which contains a pain-relieving compound called salicin, similar to aspirin. I should be tending the four incisions on my belly with a salve of comfrey and plantain, to help the skin heal faster. Because I do truly believe in the healing ... See more

Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road of practicality that things get tough.

“My belief is that the two universal paths are great love and great suffering,” he told me. For much of his life, Rohr has used suffering as a spiritual tool to help him learn to be humble. “I pray for one humiliation a day,” he told me. “It doesn’t have to be major.”

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”

To release Jesus the mystical integration of divinity and humanity from the myriad dogmatic, doctrinal, creedal frames, the hymns, images, traditions and orthodoxies, preachings and teachings within which he is trapped by the church, is my challenge.