Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

You are a child of God.

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation