I know Jimmy believes that the company’s evaluations are meaningless. Mildred appears naïve. Employees are always surprised when they’re let go and they have no idea who to turn to. They’ve heard of Jimmy. He exists in some mythical employment realm, like the Yeti; and he’s as popular, with management, as Oscar Schindler once was with ex-Nazis. I tell Mildred that Jimmy will get back to her. For Mildred, it’s a long wait. I hang up, leaving her to the lonely world of the recently fired.

Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.

In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of others [selflessness], you bind merit karma. Nevertheless, they are both karma, aren’t they? The fruit of merit karma is shackles of gold and fruit of demerit karma is shackles of iron but they are both indeed shackles, aren’t they?

Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.

Before you think that you are making great sacrifices on something, look at what sacrifices are making others on the same issues!

To sacrifice is to do for others what we need done for ourselves. But the greatest sacrifice of all is to know that in doing this for someone else, we have now forfeited this thing ever being done for us.

If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.