I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.