It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.