The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.