May I be faithful to the deeper desire, the one that makes me more honest, more generous, more vibrant.

Not the thing you’ve settled for, not the thing you’ve invested in for so long that you keep sending checks to the bank just to avoid admitting the loss.

Specialness is built on separation, on needing to stand apart. Because of that, this label is always fragile.

Passivity is simply aggression with good manners. None of this can be understood without the basic sanity that everything is interdependent, dynamic, co-created.

Demonization becomes the process of the day when we lack a guiding principle of “love thy neighbor.”

At 7:30 A.M. in the women’s correctional facility, T. called me over in the still-darkened dorm. The TVs were broadcasting the story that Charlie Kirk had been shot.

Your gifts will realize to
the extent that you are true, despite all obstacles to the aim of getting out of suffering, the causes of suffering and helping others to get out of suffering and apply yourself to that intention in every breathing moment.

We imagine our genius is something to be earned through effort, or that it will appear on its own.

Eros’s desire for us is that we see in the darkness and understand the beauty there and that we stand in the illuminating spotlight of vision to be revealed.

In a world that exalts the rigidity of self-will and control, desire occurs as inherently threatening.

If utilized well, one can use Eros to convert resentment.

To be truly transformed, we must allow desire to take us and turn us into who we would need to be to have the care, guardianship, respect, and fierceness required to carry this noble force.