I am learning to be assertive by asking for what I need without fear or inhibition. I ask without demand, expectation, manipulation, or a sense of entitlement. I can show respect for the timing and choices of others by being able to take no for an answer.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. —1 JOHN 3:13

In our most unsettled, ungrounded state, we can draw new remedies from our wounds, new structures of strength from the rubble of our predicaments. This is the alchemy of the human condition: in the crucible of our collapses, dislocations, injuries, and miseries, there is gold to be found in the lead that weighed us down. All it takes is our

The word dissipation is used in physics regarding

The good news is that we don’t have to be psychologically healthy to love. We don’t have to be spiritually adept or perfect in any way. In fact, sometimes wonderful forms of love come through us in our moments of greatest weakness and disarray. Of course, we can love fervently and creatively as healthy and happy people also. Love is unconditional

I say Yes to everything that happens to me today as an opportunity to give and receive love without reserve. I am thankful for the gift of love in me from the Sacred Heart of the universe. May I open my heart more and more. May everything I think, say, feel, and do foster justice, peace, and love for all humanity. May love be the guiding light of

Day One: Love is my real name, who I am, all I am, and all I do. Day Two: I show my love without expecting anything in return. Day Three: I let go of the need to retaliate. I look for ways to include everyone in my circle of love. Day Four: I have all the love I need. I welcome all the love that comes my way. Day Five: I trust that everyone has

Nothing can destroy a person who refuses, no matter what is done to him, to hate back. —MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Radical love has no strings attached. It does not have the motivation of commandeering others to love us in return. We love for no reason other than that love is what we are.