Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.