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

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.