Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.