A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

Transition begins in forgiveness.