The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.