It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

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.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.