Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

Patience is not learned in safety.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.