You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

There are some things you never say good-bye to

...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.