From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed experience or some unexpressed and important part of who we are. Whatever we have denied may stop us and dam the creative flow of our lives. Avoiding pain, we may linger in the vicinity of our wounds, sometime for many years, gathering the courage to experience them.

Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.