If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?