Quotes from Joan Z. Borysenko

Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

Thank God for what doesn't need healing.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.