When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.