All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

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

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.