When in doubt, create space.

Take care of the love that sustains you.

Operating out of obligation is a quick way to derail our sanity. We win no gold starts for demonstrating how much we can endure...

Trying to expunge those parts of you resulting from years of sorrow and anguish is a losing game. But you can learn to trade your...

Living in the moment is not the same as living as if there were no tomorrow. Spontaneity is great, but in most cases richness takes...

We are redeemed through our actions.

When thinking about how we treat indigenous people around the world, I'm reminded that we cannot harm someone while holding...

Our stories are our medicine.

Part of our work is to make polite bigotry socially unacceptable. We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront bias in the moment...

We must strike against our souls' slack and sleeping senses to forge our own awakened hearts.

Comparing yourself to others is just your brain's way of saying that you've been experiencing too much joy.

My prayers are in the doing of things.

We are bound by our biases.

Reliving the past is like trying to swim in the same river twice, as the old saying goes. Both you and the river are always changing...

Here's the yellow brick road to a full heart: experience >> wisdom >> confidence >> gratitude >> humility >> generosity

We can only keep what we give, and we can only give what we have. So give all you've got, but no more.

Some helpful definitions: Dependence: total reliance Co-dependence: excessive reliance Interdependence: mutual reliance...

In a society steeped in straight supremacy, all of us make homophobic choices from time to time. Even gay people...

We can't truly understand others, unless we understand where they're coming from. And that requires curiosity, listening, and empathy.

We all swim in a sea of stigma, bias, and prejudice. There's just no avoiding it. It's our work to acknowledge it, listen, read...