It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.