Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.