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

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.

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.

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

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

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.