The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.