“When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.”

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”

“Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light.”

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”

“Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...”