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

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

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.

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.

To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.