If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

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

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

Teach us to number our days aright.