When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.