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

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

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

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.

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)