Forgiveness is the path to healing.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.