When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

[D]on__ cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what__ the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you__e not at its mercy. When you don__ understand, you__e lost in the midst of it.