Quotes from David Richo

Then we become more adult, because we are fulfilling the inner urge that all humans were born with: to go on a heroic journey, to move on rather than stay stuck. Where we are is not our fate. It is where we can best begin the journey.

We recall that there are two ways of going around: The spiral is positive repetition, ever-evolving in an upward trend. The spinning wheel in the snow is the negative repetition, ever wasting energy.

It took just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur," Nietzsche said. He is also the one who said that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

The most precious realities of human life are beyond our grasp but within the mystery of our hearts. The givens of life are the most long-standing mysteries in human history. Mature religions do not explain them away but honor the mystery by letting it

The path to a higher power than ego is saying yes to the predicament

Faith is real when it hails life's terms with no entitlement to an exemption and no guarantees they will be reversed beyond the grave.

Each given of life comes to us trailing many graces.

Attention from others leads to self-respect. Acceptance engenders a sense of being inherently a good person. Appreciation generates a sense of self-worth. Affection makes us feel lovable. Allowing gives us encouragement to pursue our own deepest needs, values, and wishes.

Mark Twain humorously quipped: "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

To love is to become loving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of this encouraging possibility in his address at Harvard Divinity School in 1838: "We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Attention means bringing something or someone into focus so it is no longer blurred by the projections of your own ego; thus it requires genuine interest and curiosity about the mysterious and surprising truth that is you.

A declaration of our own history of trust is essential in understanding ourselves and in growing in intimacy with our partner.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.

We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.