We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.