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

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

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.

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

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.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

They think they’re runnin’ the country but all they’re doin’ is writin’ the reports.” From Homesteader

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything.

Remember, as a believer, you are already in God’s kingdom, even if you are still standing on this earth.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.