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.

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

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?

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

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

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