A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like, sure. I volunteered. I had been in a place in my life - a relationship had ended; my parents were getting elderly - I was kind of adrift. The name that was given to me, just randomly, was Todd Willingham. And he wrote me a letter, and in this letter, he thanked me for writing him and [said that] if I would like to visit, he would put me on his visitor list... I was just really struck by the letter from Todd. It was very polite; it was very kind.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?