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

Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

Perfectionism is slow death.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.