You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

If you are trying to appear calm and collected on the outside when actually you are feeling upset and angry, your children may mirror this to you by becoming wild and disruptive. While you are trying to maintain control, they pick up the chaotic energy inside of you and reflect it in their behavior. If you express directly what you are feeling, without trying to cover it up, they will usually calm down. They feel comfortable with the truth, the congruity between your feelings and your words. This is true of other relationships as well.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.