In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

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