#Pray

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."

"Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget."

"We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown."

"I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet."

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

"I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be."

"I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray"

"Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?"

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

"I will not pray for health or wealth or splendor; I will pray for a higher consciousness."

"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

"I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault."

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason."

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

"Life may bring you to your knees; pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution!"

"Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them."