To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)