Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.