Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.

Writer William Plomer described creativity as “the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

(Jean Kilbourne’s latest DVD is Killing Us Softly 4,6 and Katz’s DVD is titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.7)

Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy, and gratitude into our lives.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

In the long run, work does not work without play.”2

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perfectionism is more about perception—we want to be perceived as perfect.