If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

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.

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.