Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.