This is the secret heartbreak of our time: not that love is absent, but that when it arrives, we cannot let it in.
What we convert becomes our teacher.
It is time to wake from the trance of powerlessness that would have you believe that anyone other than you could throw the switch.
The higher your quotient, the more energy you have available. And the more energy you have, the more life you can touch.
The most generous thing we can do is love through people to God.
If Eros teaches us anything, it is this: We did not have the illness we went to the hospital for.
Consider the constructs of family, love, purpose, spirituality, or marriage. We take an off-the-rack notion of what those things are and do not follow them down to their root to define them for ourselves.
When we choose to be fully who we are, we can be a center point from which clarity radiates..
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.