Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

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.