We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.