Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

Teach us to number our days aright.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.