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

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

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.

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.

Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning.

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.