Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

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

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

Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

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.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.