[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

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.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

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