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.

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.

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.

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

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

The world is begging for you to lead.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.