By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

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

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?