The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.