We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.