“Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is to let it move like a wave, allow it to complete its movement and, eventually, to leave. If the movement gets held back, if it gets trapped and stagnates, or an inner turbulence stirs, the unexpressed emotion and grief can turn into physical illness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, or other displaced emotion.”

“Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.”

“Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.”

“A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.”

“Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.”

“Every journey towards change begins with awareness.”

“Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.”

“We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.”

“Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.”

“Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.”

“Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.”