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I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
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We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
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I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.
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I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.
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When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
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17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.
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Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
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Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.
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There is no peace without forgiveness.
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A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
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There is nothing spiritual about complacency.