The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

It takes only one person to have a successful relationship.

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.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.