Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.