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

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.

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

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.