In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

self-education is the education of your inner infinite creative resources and essential to get if you want to live a life of freedom, abundance and fulfillment.

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.