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I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
It’s easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world. It is the hardest and most important work in one’s life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail.
Hate destroys the hater.
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.