The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.