If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you’re in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It’s different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.

Love is not what we become but who we already are.

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.

Aging teaches us to follow our life force inward. It is an object lesson in how awareness is gradually drawn towards the center...

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can’t second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it’s often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same – Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

Open yourself to discomfort. Meet it with mercy, not fear. Recognize that when our pain most calls for our embrace, we are often the least present. Soften, enter, and explore, and continue softening to make room for your life.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly – start with little unkind acts, otherwise you’ll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

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.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.