There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

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.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.