Obedience takes time, and it's not efficient. We can pretend to be too busy to listen. But the labor of being of one mind and of one heart give meaning to authority. Obedience is never a flight of responsibility, but rather being plunged into greater responsibility. Poverty - disinheritance and dispossession to create space, to be possessed by God.
Poverty simplifies our life and brings joyfulness and gratitude.
Through generosity, we share in the life of our generous God. Chastity - for love, for friendships that create equality. Chastity creates a whole way of life that publicly expresses our yearning for the divine. Few are called to this exceptional grace. And later when many left religious life - my colleagues urged me, too, to be prudent and leave to create a better life for myself.