Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.