“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”

“Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory character...”

“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.”

“The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved”

“Be still and know you are loved Feel the arms of the universeRocking you to its steady hum.”

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”