You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

What matters is giving over to what you love.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.