Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.

What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing.

The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.

It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.