“Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.” ~Lisa M. Hayes For as long as I

“Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of answers.” ~Unknown Last week I was visiting the Scandinave, a Scandinavian-style bath spa, with

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~Dalai Lama. It wasn’t until my mother died

“We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the

“When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you

“Get out of your head and get into your body. Think less and feel more.” ~Osho Do you want to

“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.” ~Unknown It

“Calm your mind. Life becomes much easier when you keep your mind at peace.” ~Unknown Let me start with a

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~Paulo Coelho We’re bombarded by

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~Rumi One of the most common

“If ideas that I started but never finished were worth money, I’d be a billionaire.” ~Brian Vaszily In virtually every

“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” ~Unknown I walked in

“What if pain—like love—is just a place brave people visit?” ~Glennon Doyle It’s one of life’s greatest paradoxes: When life is

“And suddenly you know… it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.” ~Unknown Did you

Have you ever found it hard to motivate yourself to do something that was good for you, only to eventually

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling

“I want to live my life without stress and worries. I don’t need to be rich or famous. I just

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” ~Pema Chodron Too often we let

“The don’t-know mind… doesn’t fear, has no wish to control or foresee, steps off the cliff of the moment with

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt I could not find the bottom of the pool. The task

“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” ~Steve

“I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh 

You know those “moments of truths”? When what you hear, or come to realize, turns your world around. When one

Your heart races. Your body temperature rises. Your hands may shake. Your stomach may churn. Your thoughts start spiraling to

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” ~Brian Tracy There was a time

“You are responsible for your intention, not your reception.” ~Amy E. Smith I’ve realized that I put a lot of

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live

“Most disagreements are caused by different perceptions that created different realities.” ~Unknown When I was thirteen, I experienced a monumental

“You are not a mess. You are a feeling person in a messy world.” ~Glennon Doyle Melton Anxiety can be

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way,

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield Imagine with me for a second. You wake

“Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.” ~Maria Shriver Like many of us, I spent a

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up

“Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do in life.  You aren’t what you do. If you are what

“Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.” ~Deepak Chopra

“When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” ~Paulo Coelho My sister-in-law returned

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you… so you

The philosopher Alan Watts always said that life is like a song, and the sole purpose of the song is

“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and

“The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.” ~John O’Donohue I started a new relationship in December 2015,

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have

“We are used to thinking of thinking as a good thing, as that which makes us human. It can be quite

“When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you don’t say ‘no’ to yourself.” ~Paolo Coehlo My whole body was

“Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forward.” ~Soren Kierkegaard On my first day back in college,

At night, when you think about how you spent your day, how often do you focus on all the things

“When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.” ~Eckhart Tolle Well

“Change your thoughts and you change the world.” ~Norman Vincent Peale We all encounter times in life when someone says

“Stop holding yourself back. If you aren’t happy, make a change.” ~Unknown Growing up in a culture where physical beauty

“Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.” ~Robert Maurer I’m currently working on

“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge and harboring anger/resentment

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we ought to be, but to find