I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.