Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.