It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.