You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.