You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.

When you give an understanding response, both of you gain a greater understanding of what she’s really thinking and feeling. You make it safe for her to open up and share. You make it comfortable for her to engage her own inner gifts to help deal with the concern. And you build the relationship, which will prove immensely helpful further down the road.

Stories built on the model of the Hero's Journey have an appeal that can be felt by everyone, because they well up from a universal source in the shared unconscious and reflect universal concerns.

The main forces for convergence are the diffusion of knowledge and investment in training and skills.

With each passing obstacle, there is a lesson to learn. Remember, it's not the destination, but the journey that counts.

The servant leader is servant first. One wants to serve first; then one aspires to lead. This is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions.” - Robert Greenleaf

There’s a difference between pain and suffering. ...You’re not choosing the pain, but you’re choosing the suffering.

There is always safety in the truth, whether it be knowing God’s truth or knowing the truth about yourself.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire.