... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.