We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like.