Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

In service, there is clarity and compassion.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.