An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.