The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.