Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

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.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours, ' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.