Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

The way to send a clear message that you are ready for better people in your life is the kick the rascals to the curb.

Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

Just when you thought you’d considered all the angles, life goes from a square to a cube. Love should also be 3D.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen