Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

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.