The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

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.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.