Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.
When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.
Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.