Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?

Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.

If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. —Japanese proverb

It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.