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

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

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.

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

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.

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

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.