God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

Integrity is never painless.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.