In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.