We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions… When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.
This journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!… The least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a whisk, an eye-glance — little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity.