We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.