There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

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.

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.