Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.