I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

- Dawna Markova

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d…

- Dawna Markova

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

- Dawna Markova

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

- Dawna Markova

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sen…

- Dawna Markova

The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will…

- Dawna Markova

Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, …

- Dawna Markova

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh…

- Dawna Markova

I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen o…

- Dawna Markova