People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.