In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.