For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.