If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

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

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

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.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.