Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

We need experience to release what matters.