A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.