Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

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

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.