How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Teach us to number our days aright.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

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

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

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.