“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”

“Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.”