If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.

As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.