I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

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.

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.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.