The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.

Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.