The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.