Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

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.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.