Kat Gale’s Reviews > Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart > Status Update

We are not powerless to effect positive change. We are powerful beyond measure in our ability to treat each other with kindness. If you want to change lives, be kind and patient with strangers, be open and generous with your friends and family, talk to your neighbors—and listen to them, too. Don’t underestimate the extraordinary effect you have every single time you show up to a situation with an open, loving heart.

we have to take responsibility for how we choose to communicate. Are we showing up with love or with judgment? Are we open to seeing where the conversation goes, or are we rigid in our expectations? Are we committed to being kind or to being right? These choices count. They invite either connection or conflict.

ultimately, who we are is who we decide to be, because of and despite everything we’ve been through. Our power lives in choice.

"what do you want to do with your life?” my friend pressed, when I still hadn’t answered him.
I’d like to never have to answer this question again, that’s what, I thought. “I want to spread as much love as possible,” I responded. I’m not sure my answer was deep, but it was the truth.
“Okay,” my friend replied, “how do you want to do that?”
Pain in the ass, that friend."
–Yes, I hate it when people ask me that!