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

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.

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

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