“I think it’s essential to construct our lives
as if it’s a story we want to tell.”

“Respect, like love, grows at exactly the rate one sacrifices to produce it.”

“If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.”

“Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we’re in.”

“Whenever, wherever you find a sensation of deep well-being, prioritize it, fall into it and luxuriate in it as long as possible…”

“Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.”

“For a permanent core resolution, we have no other choice than to fall into the vortex of our deepest yearnings, follow the light beyond our dark fears and excuses, and connect in union with what we love.”

“Listening and hearing implies for all forms of communication—from others, from oneself, from the ‘personality’ of any given moment…with an emphasis not on what is being said but what is meant. Learning to hear what the communicator himself may not hear—the underlying intent and yearning.”

“The root of the word humor is fluid.”

“Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony.”