“When you are not waiting to be affirmed at every encounter it’s easy to filter out opinions through the colander of personal truth. Knowing who you are tunes your ear to the frequency of stability.”

“Ordinary caution is likened to reasonable reservation, but caution that has undergone calcification aged by isolation is thick… stubborn, and shrouded with fear.”

“I am available to surrender to the active substance of life-giving power within me… to beautify the ashes of longstanding cyclical strongholds of despair.”