If you do not meet the sacred in yourself, you will not meet the sacred in anything; if you meet the sacred anywhere, even in the smallest thing, you will have found the sacred within yourself.

That is the first lesson, before all others. If you have not learned this lesson, reaching for another will reveal nothing of permanence, will move you further from the truth, and questions will be answered with questions.

Yet it is the simplest lesson to learn: Let go! Open your eyes! Open your arms! To feel pain doesn't mean that someone has harmed you; to feel joy doesn't mean that someone has caused you to dance.