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.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

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