“When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.”

“Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?”

“When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.”

“As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.”

“Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.”

“In that moment, I welcomed back the light and let go of the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, the past, the loss, the wallowing, the grief and the anger. I let go of the illusion of control in our losses, of our afflictions.”