Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

I sink a hundred times a day. I have to, because the Knowing never reveals a five-year plan. It feels to me like a loving, playful guide, like the reason it will only reveal the next right thing is that it wants me to come back again and again, because it wants to do life together.

She said “I do” while her insides said “I don’t,” and then she spent the next decade trying not to know what she knew: that she had betrayed herself and that her life would not really begin until she stopped betraying herself.

May the invisible order become visible. May our dreams become our plans.

Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn.

What is the point of being a writer if I have to say words about the words I’ve already written? Do painters have to draw about their paintings?

Goldenness requires contrast.

Yet something inside us rejects it. We know instinctively: This is not the intended order of things. This is not how things are meant to be. We know that there is a better, truer, wilder way.

All of our suffering comes when we try to get to our resurrection without allowing ourselves to be crucified first.

Tabitha never knew the wild. Yet Tabitha knew the wild. It was in her.