Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.

You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions.-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.