“If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?”

“You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.”

“When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.”

“Be happy for things that work.”

“For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.”

“However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.”

“I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "p...”

“It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You're worth the work!”

“The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)”

“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”

“Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”

“Choose your love. Love your choice.”

“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside,...”

“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”

“Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emoti...”