Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.