The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

History belongs to the intercessors

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.