The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain.

[You should] see everything about your life as a lesson. Ask, "Am I empowering myself?" Even for a tiny thing, like if you're in the grocery store and you're thinking, "Should I buy that?" And your gut says, "You know you can't eat that." If you decide not to listen, you've harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice.

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.