A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.

Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

When I'm triggered, I think, "This will last forever" or "What if this lasts forever?" I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, "It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you"? My power lies in these choices.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.