We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.