St. Francis of Assisi

Life is change. But it is not antithetical to what came before, it is not a negation of that, or an elimination of it. In some ways, it might be a building upon it.

I have encountered people who don't recognize their physical and emotional pain because they've never had the opportunity to experience it deeply.

Someone who constantly engages in “if only” thinking will never truly be at peace.

When I take the time to remember where I am, who is with me, and what is around me, I come to my senses.

From the depth of St. Francis' relationship with God, he intuited a profound understanding of the human ego.

“Rich by reason of its poverty.” That phrase was as difficult to understand in Francis’s day as it is in ours. Celano was not pulling this expression out of thin air.