It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.

When I am perfect, I will be allowed to leave.

... I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I’ve ever made.

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.