You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.