Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.