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

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

Fear is the friction in all transitions.

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

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.

Belief traps or frees us.

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.