Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

There is no beauty or safety in hatred. As a long-term strategy, based on craziness, it’s doomed.

He called this higher power his old HP.

Jung wrote that when we look outside ourselves, we dream. When we look inside, we wake up. Why would you walk out of a lovely dream, or Plato’s cave, into real life?

I know that all teenagers believe they are intrinsically defective, so that was why I brought up sparrows and friends. I asked the class if any of their best friends had acne, glasses, or problems at home, and if that made them love the friends less. Of course not. I asked them to say, “I have value,” and both teenagers did so with mortification. T

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Everything good begins with awareness, whether awakening to the momentousness of the present or to the damage we are causing.

All truth is paradox. Everything true in the world has innate contradictions.

More than any other sentence I have ever come across, I love Ram Dass’s line that when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home.

Light is energy you can’t touch or corral, which is also the nature of spirit. They are both slippery, and slide around in every direction, and they are not always warm and fuzzy, which is so awful.