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

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

All natural processes are long processes and they last.