When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.

Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.