The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.