If you’re not growing, you’re not living.

It’s the belief that tomorrow can be better than today because today holds the lessons for a better tomorrow, as well as the tools to use them.

What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.

It’s when the apples ripen in the fall that I come to realize what the trees have been up to all summer. And when the fall of my life comes, will I have apples?

I can rid myself of ‘all of the death’ that is all around me by getting out of the way of all of the things that ‘all of that death’ was attempting to birth within me.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

I can work on changing what I’ve become. Or I can stop engaging in the things that have made me become the person I’m trying to change. And if I’m not serious about the latter, I can forget the former.

I think that we should be less focused on the crisis and more focused on what we can learn from the crisis. For the biggest crisis of all is the crisis of repeating the crisis.

Simply growing ‘up’ is far too limited. Rather, I want to grow in every direction.