Our lessons can come as easily as we are willing to learn them.

You do not get extra points for doing things the hard way.

Everyone is doing the best they can with what they have to work with at the moment.
(You may not want to be too close to some of those people who are doing their best at the moment. You can send them Love from a distance.)

It all matters, so do what you can.

We are born knowing that we are powerful and beautiful. For many of us it takes, on average, the first three or four years of our life to decide to "bury" or set aside this knowledge of our magnificence. If we do, we bury this knowledge because we are very intelligent and terminally adaptable and it does not take long to notice that walking around knowing that you are powerful and beautiful is frequently not very well accepted in our society.

If you have done your best and you are still having difficulty recognizing the difference between the two, consider throwing the baby out with the bath water. It not really very dangerous, as you will very quickly know which is which. The bath water will drain away and the baby will still be there, usually crying and in need of a hug.

Knights in Shining Armor/Nights in Shining Amour, masculine and feminine aspects of the rescuer.

I believe that compromise is not a goal, not a "great" starting place for a conversation. I believe that we can make every effort first to invest our combined skills and strengths and resources, and ingenuities, to devise a way, or ways, for everyone to have exactly what they want. If we are not able, temporarily, to create those solutions, then if the people involved want to we can agree to separate our "projects" and support each other to do what seems "best" to each of us.

Beware the teeny little steps that you take in any direction away from your heart. That is the way that you end up miles away without knowing how you got there.

Find your core commitments and passions and honor them.

Remember to leave at least one door open for your dreams to be true.

Wounds heal. Our bodies, minds, and hearts possess "automatic" and very capable systems for repairing injuries. When we apply our conscious intent we can heal even faster and better, we can even reduce the number of events that we experience as "painful" by changing how we perceive them when they are occurring. It is up to us to either give something the power to hurt us or not. Digging at any scars will usually cause pain and will usually make the scar bigger. The pain is new pain because you are digging at something that has already healed. It is not "still hurting" from the original event.