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

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

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.