The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.
The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.