Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Ultimately love is everything.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

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

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

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

If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.