Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

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.

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

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

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.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)