Wounds Are Where the Light Enters

Wounds are how the light gets in.

This is my favorite thing to do, is look out at a bunch of people and feel like I'm talking to them all at once. That's why I'm on the Internet!

Courage means so many things to so many different people, and the word changes along the course of your life.

What it essentially took was getting sick of my own bullshit. All of these stories I've been telling myself about my physical strength and the importance of it, all of these stories I've been telling myself about what I didn't get to be angry about or sad about, I was sick of it.

You have to get sick of your own bullshit. You have to say, 'That hurt. That sucked. That was messed up; I'm mad about it.' And then you can move into a next phase, which really sucks and that phase is, 'What am I gonna do about it?'

I might be good at this, but I am terrified. And I'm not terrified that I'll say the wrong word. I'm not terrified that I'll fall off the stage. I am mostly terrified that I'll do this right and you'll see me.

Courage, for me, is coming up here and telling you that I was angry about the way I was raised, but I love my mother. And I think she's fantastic.

Choose to expose your wounds in safe spaces. Choose to let the light in. Choose to jump over the obstacle of fear.

Truth is beautiful. Truth requires courage. You have to be courageous to admit the truth and to find the truth and to hear the truth. And to accept the truth. It all requires courage, beyond your body.

Courage is about doing what's hard, what's actually hard.

What does it mean, even, to be ready to be honest with yourself?

The gap between expectation and reality is where pain lives. And that's what we're scared of admitting. It's that we had an expectation, and it bumped against reality. And it hurt.