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

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Often things are as bad as they seem.

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