The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.