The body IS a miracle, after all.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.