The word encourage comes from the Old French "to take heart", and with self-compassion we take heart as we guide ourselves on the path of...

Let me hear you. Speak your heart and empty out those dark corners. Words unspoken cannot bring joy. Let them dance, even if their steps...

How did the rose ever open its heart and give this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being,...

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical...

My desire is always the same; wherever Life deposits me: I want to stick my toe & soon my whole body into the water. I want to shake out...

What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can...

look down at your body whisper there is no home like you

Take the step. Shiver, tremble, shake... Feel more fear than you've ever felt! But take the step. Or do not. (That’s okay too.) Either...

Listen to the call of the homeland. Mountains and rivers are so beautiful. Let us go back to our home to touch our roots. Crossing the...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our...

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white...

The sun hears the fields talking about effort and the sun smiles, and whispers to me, "Why don't the fields just rest, for I am willing...

If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world, you are not living with your truth. Both...

If you would grow to your best self Be patient, not demanding Accepting, not condemning Nurturing, not withholding Self-marveling, not...

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the...

Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to...

"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are." - Brené Brown

"Here is one way to look at yourself through spiritual eyes: you are a message. When you wonder what existence is all about, when you...

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only...

“Every midwife knows that not until a mother's womb softens from the pain of labour will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to...