“Often our call in life grows out of the compassion that we have built up because of our own woundedness. In that sense we can begin to see our woundedness as a gift rather than a failure; it is out of our woundedness and our personal limitations that our healing gifts will come; healing, praying, loving, all go hand in hand. Healing is loving; when we heal, we love; when we love, we heal. Sometimes in our life we can try to solve a problem, and there is a time for that, but sometimes just letting ourselves love again and be loved can solve many problems. When we get burned out, it isn’t usually because we are doing too many things, but often because we are not letting ourselves be loved.”

Peter Hoskin, Jesuit priest and clinical psychologist