Be a bush if you can't be a tree.If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.If you can't be a sun, be a star.For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
02273 – Christ in Disguise
It would be foolish to pretend that it is always easy to remember [that Christ is present in the ordinary stranger]. . . . If Mary had appeared in Bethlehem clothed, as St. John says, with the sun, a crown of twelve stars on her head, and the moon under her feet...
01933 – The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the...
01627 – Joy for Each New Day
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different...