No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.