I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

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