The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.