Living Loving and Learning

1. Right Knowledge, to supply you with the tools necessary for your voyage. 2. Wisdom, to assure you that you are using the accumulated knowledge of the past in a manner that will best serve the discovery of your presence, your “now.” 3. Compassion, to help you accept others whose ways may be different from yours, with gentleness and understanding, as

“Thinking five to six thoughts at once, we train to keep chronically tense. Everywhere we find training in tenseness. Nowhere do we find training in ease and happiness. Poor man, created to befriend all creatures, does not even befriend himself.”

I am beginning to believe that maybe the truly mentally healthy individual is the one who has the most alternatives, the most viable alternatives. A person who can say, “If this doesn’t happen, what else and what else and what else, is possible?”

Yes—he is always impatient with bodies, minds, and purposes grown dormant.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’

“Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.” Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are.

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”

We think much less than what we know. We know much less than what we love. We love much less than what there is. And to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are.

“Birds never sing in caves.” And neither do we. In order to learn, you’ve got to be free. You’ve got to be free to experiment, to try, free to make mistakes.