Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

We've all been should upon enough.

Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.