[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)

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

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

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.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.