We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.