Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.

Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

The believer is not a slave to fa

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.