If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This is terrible. It'll be awhile before the economy comes back. Even if they're hiring someone, they're not hiring someone my age with my resume." And that's really what causes the crash and burn. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

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 world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

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