The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.

We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

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.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention