I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.