"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.