Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient!

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.