Rule Number One is this: If youโre open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if youโre defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the cluesโboom! Sledgehammer.
Gay HendricksWe keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.
Gay HendricksOur species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.
Gay Hendricks