When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.