Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

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

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