You do not have to instruct a flower to bloom. You do not have to tell it how to root. You do not have to wish for it to sprout, you do not have to affirm that it will continue to reach toward the sun. You do not have to fear that it will not grow. You only have to arrange the environment so that growth is the inevitable outcome.

To realize that self-certainty is a product of sincere self-approval.

Please take this as a moment to know that you do not owe anyone your grace, certainly not those who have been ungracious to you; but you do owe it to yourself.

The only thing you’re actually letting go of is the idea that all you’d ever deserve are the things that do not reach back.

Maybe right now, you’re realizing the value in recognizing how far you’ve come and allowing that to fuel you forward.

The things we are most attached to—the things we most anxiously hold onto—are often the ones we sense, at some level, cannot be sustained on their own.

that we often don’t see people as they are, but as we are.

Aloneness is the experience people most fear, and yet it’s also the same realm where the most profound and life-altering work can occur. That is likely not a coincidence.

Your purpose is not a thing you do, it’s a person you become—and it’s the way that person does everything that informs what your legacy will be.