“When we free ourselves, we automatically free everyone around us. ⁣”

Love is a powerful form of vulnerability and if you replace the word love with vulnerability in that line, it’s just as true.⁣

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

We don’t need to do awkward, brave, and kind alone. We were never meant to.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important.⁣

When we screw up or fall down, many of us talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to someone we love and respect.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

You don’t have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.

After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.