I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling a sense of what they came to this earth to do.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

When you really want to show some love, keep the flowers and say it with spaghetti.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

I've always had problems with guys!

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.