Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)