God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or] agreements-not that our ego or personality made, but our soul did.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

We are actually more afraid of change than we are of death

Our lives change externally as we change internally.

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.