As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.

Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.