There are two emotions: love and fear.

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.