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

Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.

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

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

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

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.