Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Life, " said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!