Axioms

Life is what happens to you while you are planning your life.

I always resented interruptions to my work until I realized that those interruptions were my real work.

Who is my neighbor? My neighbor is the person who is actually in my life while I am plotting how to be in somebody else's life.

Love is what you are experiencing while you are futilely searching for it beyond your own circles - and takng the circles around you for granted.

Joy is what catches you by surprise, from a source that is quite other than where you are pursuing it.

As listed by Ronald Rolheiser in Against An Infinite Horizon