Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.

Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.

In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.