· “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
· “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
· “Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those, I didn’t want to go anywhere near them. But the stroke reminded me that I had a body and a brain, that I had to honor them.”
· “Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.”
· “We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.”
· “In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
· “In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.”
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