I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that the… - Arianna Huffington

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly — to fully know and be fully known by another — we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

When a child loses confidence in his or her creativity, the impact can be profound. People start to separate the world into those who are creative and those who are not. They come to see these categories as fixed, forgetting that they too once loved to draw and tell imaginative stories. Too often they opt out of being creative.

Giving up drugs is easy compared to dealing with the emotions drugs protected you from.” Learning to be vulnerable without shame and accepting our emotions without judgment becomes much easier when we realize that we are more than our emotions, our thoughts, our fears, and our personalities. And the stronger the realization, the easier it becomes to move from struggle to grace. The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I “try” to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. — STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH