Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.