What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

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.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

I love you. They can't take it away.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.

If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.