Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.