Healing does not take place in the fast lane.

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.

There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.