Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.