“「To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.」”

“「Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know」”

“「Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equals」”

“「The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and kindly」”

“「Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it is not out there is that it is inside us.」”

“「In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.」”