Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.