Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.