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

The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.