When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Hell is just resistance to life.

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.