“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.”

“Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.”

“Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”

“Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.”

“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”

“It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.p 374”

“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.”