Nurture

The hard truth is that no one gets to be in community without effort.

L – Love

I think this might actually be a bell hooks definition:being invested in someone else’s spiritual growth. Also, Ann says that showing up is 100 percent of the work. Love is showing up.

You don’t have to do things others do, or have things they have, at the expense of the deeper things you want. You really don’t. Almost everything is an option. You have full permission to ask yourself what really matters to you—whatever that is—and then optimize for that in all hard tradeoffs of life. You’re going to have to make some sacrifices a... See more

The way you change a person is by getting through not to their head or their will but to their heart.

kinda wishing I could have a teacher make me write this 99 times on a chalkboard: "When we judge others we are judging ourselves" "When we judge others we are judging ourselves" "When we judge others we are judging ourselves"

When we make a pact with ourselves to show up for reality just as it is, reality rewards us by revealing its hidden holiness, its ordinary wonder, its fruitful shadows and radiant wounds. Not always, not everywhere, but more and more often and in the places we least expect.… This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be presen... See more

“I can sum up positive psychology in just three words – Other People Matter. Period. Anything that builds relationships between and among people is going to make you happy.”