Occasional temporary feelings of sadness are a natural part of life. However if you frequently feel this way, or if the feelings are excessive, you may be suffering from depression.

We've been told to "be in the present" and to "live in the now". But actually, we are always living in the present, there is no other option really.

The person who is not a victim may have lost battles in the past, but realizes that life is a step-by-step process. Though he or she may not have liked the experience of losing, this individual has learned what could be learned from it.

Albert Einstein said it best: "There are only two ways to live your life: As if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle."

The purpose of communication is for both people to benefit: the one who gives feels fulfilled in the giving, and the one who receives feels fulfilled in receiving.

A Kenyan saying goes that we should treat the Earth well; it is not a gift from our parents but a loan from our children. 

If a person gets mad at you for no reason and starts offending you, then say to yourself mentally, if not directly to the person -- "I do not accept your anger, rage, or hostility."

Everyday the sun rises is a new day full of possibilities. We do not have to approach today in the same way as we approached yesterday.

As you begin to seek inner faith and come to trust yourself and your abilities, you must first cross a small bridge. We call this the "bridge of forgiveness".

More than anything else, what we want of life is escape from pain, and the attainment of joy.

If we believe that we have no choices and that we are powerless in life, we will live life from a victim point of view.

What we do is based on what we wish to attain, or our needs. Some people feel a great need for money, but is it really money they yearn for?

While the common saying goes "I'll believe it when I see it", Wayne Dyer told us "You'll see it when you believe it". We must first "see" and believe in what we wish to create before it can be in our lives.

The medical community is recognizing the deadly role that stress plays in the cause of illness. It is a major factor in the suppression of the immune system, creating susceptibility to disease.

Whenever you have a problem -- business or personal -- turn it over to the forces of creation, to God as you understand God. Most people call this process prayer, but you can call it anything you like.

Our great fear is that once we open up and show our "true" selves, that people will turn against us, that they will look down at us (as we do on ourselves), that they will abandon us, that they will reject us (as we reject ourselves).

It is so easy to make a difference in someone's life. And it doesn't cost a thing.

Some people think that in order to pray you have to be in a church, or that to meditate you must be sitting in the lotus position, or that to receive spiritual teachings you must be in the presence of a teacher or guru.

We all have needs. And those needs are constantly changing. Sometimes we need solitude, other times companionship. Sometimes we need activity and entertaining events, other times our soul yearns for peace and quiet. Sometimes we...

It is said there are only two energies... love and fear. At first we may think that is simplistic, but when we break down any other emotion (energy in motion), we find that it all fits either under the umbrella of fear or of love.

At times we fear our emotions... probably because we've repressed them and we're afraid the pressure may burst and create havoc.

When people talk about tough love, they usually are thinking of parent to child. However, tough love can be applied to ourselves.

We cannot hold two contrary thoughts at the same time and we cannot hold two contrary emotions at the same time.