24 Quotes by John Welwood

Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there – to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

A soul connection is a resonance between two people... a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension – seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence.

The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions.