We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived..

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do t….

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presenc….

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures..

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth..

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences..

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we tak….

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . .….

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds ….

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love..

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic..

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived..

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to ….

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers..

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us..