Random Walk

We don’t do anything for you by forgiving you. And we don’t hurt you by withholding our forgiveness. We only hurt ourselves.

“If the others always have you for a leader, they’ll miss finding leadership within themselves. And we need plenty of leaders.”

“When you judge anyone you judge yourself. When you seek to punish anyone you are seeking to punish yourself. What you fear in others you fear in yourself.”

a leap of faith, as Sara had once assured him, was never from Point A to Point B. A leap of faith was from Point A.

He seemed to have given up deciding things, he realized. It looked as though the only way for him to find out what he was going to do was to wait and see what he did.

The way we have to deal with ego is by transcending it. We have to outgrow the illusion that the ego is right and that anything can be good for one of us if it’s not good for all of us.

You know that line, ‘It’s a lousy job but somebody has to do it’? If it’s really a lousy job, then nobody has to do it.”

“Poor Mark,” Lissa said after she’d left. “To think that all along he had this great gift for rubbing necks, and he wasted all those years wringing them.”

“I guess he was ready to let go of whatever he was holding. It doesn’t matter what it was. You don’t have to sift through the garbage on the way to the dump, you know. Just so you haul it there and get rid of it.”