1. Resist urgency. When in doubt, slow down.

  2. When it’s hard to feel love, hope, or faith, be curious instead.

  3. If you’re confused and discontent, you’re exactly where you need to be.

  4. Tend to the shadows, but don’t make a home there.

  5. When in doubt, return to the basics. Tend to your foundations.

  6. You are allowed to grow slowly. You are allowed to grow at your own pace.

  7. Complexity, nuance, and paradox > black and white thinking.

  8. The path to personal and collective liberation is through strengthening our imagination.

  9. Your greatest gifts are in what you’ve had to repress or hide from the world.

  10. Attention > effort. You don’t need to try harder, you need to relax your grip and pay attention to what’s here.

  11. You are one drop in an ocean of wise loving magical beings, human and more-than-human. Ask for support.

  12. A thriving ecology requires the processes of death and decay. Allow things to die.

  13. You can begin again at any time.