We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23)

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Each of us is ultimately alone.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.