-How we interact with one another and how we experience ourselves are more important for dying persons than the content of their religious myths or their articulated philosophy of life.
-There is a cost to participation in our own radical change for the better. The price is that we become committed persons.
-There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive, to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
-Death is the key to the door of life.
-It is through accepting the finiteness of our individual existences that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to reject those extrinsic roles and expectations and devote each day of our lives to growing as fully as we are able.
-We must learn to draw on our inner resources, to define ourselves in terms of the feedback we receive from our own internal valuing system rather than trying to fit ourselves into some ill-fitting stereotyped role.
-When you fully understand that each day you awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
-The world is in desperate need of human beings whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them learn to live and work with others cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others, not for what those others can do for you or for what they think of you, but rather in terms of what you can do for them.
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