“We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.”

It’s a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it’s in the news and social media. It’s in our families.

I say to this generation: “We must encourage these kids.” Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader.

There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life.

In my own life, there were many things that didn’t happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an opportunity to look inside to find my spirit, my courage, my confidence and ultimately, to find my heart.

Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly.

I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

Sadly, that’s not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things – it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Human nature craves novelty.