“Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.”

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

The empty mind – the pure mind – is not a blank, zero-land, where you’re not feeling or caring about anything.

I don’t think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

You learn from your mistakes.