When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there