This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go