Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.