What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.