Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in.

Sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment -- all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message if you're not alone.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.