You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.