Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

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

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.