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Love will be our medicine.
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I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.
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Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.
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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
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Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
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Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
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I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
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There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
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My story has been the story of my generation.
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
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...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.
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I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.