Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.

Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Vision lifts you up. It makes you smile a secret smile because you know that you have something very special to share. What is your vision?

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.