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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.
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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
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Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.
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The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact.
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
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You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.
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These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
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You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
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Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
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Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end...
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The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
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The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
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If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.
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In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
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Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
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We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.
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You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.