When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.

Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or mystical. It's not. Anybody can do it who has a passion to do it and has put in enough time. These people are horsemen and horsewomen, not whisperers.

All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.