Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.