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.

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.