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

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.