Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long time.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.