We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

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.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

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